War Vehicles

The use of tanks allowed an attack to be carried out without threat from machine guns or rifle fire, as Richard Haigh, a British tank commander, details in Life in a Tank (Document 7). Thick, metal armor protected the crew of a tank from all but the most powerful artillery shells. Tanks were armed with machine guns to attack exposed enemy infantry and artillery to destroy enemy fortifications. The tank’s use as a purely pragmatic weapon was not as devastating as its effect on the spirit of soldiers defending against armor, German General Hindenburg remarks in his report on the Battle of

There was a draw back to the king tiger there was only around 500 of them made and they didn’t introduce it until 1944. The king tiger tank was no doubt the deadliest tank of WWII, but it come into the war to late and there wasn’t near enough of them made to make them a war changing implement. The Americans m4 Sherman tank was a medium tank powered by gasoline which was a major drawback. The Sherman didn’t have near as much armor as the tiger tank did, but they were reliable. Also the biggest thing about the Sherman tank is that it was mass produced and the allies simply overwhelmed

and new, deadlier weapons, World War II is one of the most defining moments in our nation’s

Financial leverage is a company's ability to pay its debt. It refers to the use of debt with the intention of increasing the potential return of an investment. This debt can increase returns on shareholders in good times and reduce them in bad times (Brealey, et al., 2012, p. 92). A Christian practicing in a financial advisor capacity is morally obligated to warn companies or consumers against becoming indebted if they are at a high risk of default. According to Liang (2007), biblical teachings provide many insights into the excessive use of debt in financial transactions. As confirmation, in

World War 2 was the most popular war that the United States was ever involved in. 18 million served in the armed forces, 10 million overseas; 25 million workers gave of their pay envelope regularly for war bonds. About 16 million Americans served in World War II from late1941 to 1945. Over 400,000 soldiers did not return. Another 670,000 were wounded on enemies ground. In order for the United States to be successful against the Axis powers, the US economy was forced to turn into a war economy. It started becoming hard to quickly build guns, tanks, ships and ammo for the war effort. The involvement of the United States and the Soviet Union in the war made a successful German military power into a disaster. In 1942 and 1943, the German

The first tanks came with the internal combustion engine and caterpillar tracks. These, however, were quite unreliable and broke down very frequently. The naval force devised bigger, stronger ships with bigger guns. Their new and improved submarines were imperative in this war. They aided in the strategy of war of attrition, or breaking the enemy down by attacking its personnel and supplies.[viii]

First, we will discuss ground vehicle advances. The Jeep was invented in World War Two. It was used as basic transportation for troops. After the war, the Jeep became more popular and was then used as a production vehicle for the public. Tanks of World War One were very primitive and very ineffective. In World War Two, the tank was one of the most important vehicles used. Leading up to World War Two, tanks were made more powerful, faster, lighter, and stronger. Tank warfare was very important in World War Two. All countries involved in the war were producing their own models of tanks. By the end of the war, the Allies had developed a new kind of tank. It had no big guns on it. It was a troop transportation vehicle that was heavily armored. Transportation vehicles were very important in the war. Without transportation, there is no efficient way to move troops. All of these vehicles were very important in the history of war.

Before the United States joined the war they helped its allies with supplies and food, which caused small cutbacks. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America declared war on Japan and were officially fighting. To help support the troops who were fighting Americans limited what they used, so there was more for military equipment. They were in short supply of “raw materials such as steel, rubber, nylon, silk, oil, and other fabrics”. To help solve this, automobile factories converted to making airplanes, tanks, and other military vehicles (“The 1940s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Overview”).

Another very important weapon used in World War II was the rifle. Most infantrymen were defined by their rifles (Slayton 34). To most men, this gun was the most important, due to the fact that it was their main protection against the enemy. Also, they were around their rifle more than any other weapon which gives the soldiers a more comfortable feeling around their rifles.

American soldiers were using fairly new weapons compared to previous conflicts. The fully automatic assault rifle was new addition to the American arsenal. A prime example of the sheer power and deadliness of an automatic rifle is the M1918BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle). This gun was the first of it’s kind for American forces. Though it was a bit heavy, it had stopping power. It blasted the .30-06 Springfield round down range at 2,822 f/s. Although the iron sights weren’t all that great, the aperture view did the job quite well for targets that were a little ways out. Due to the success of this weapon, Browning set out to create a better, stronger version of it for heavier combat. The M1919 Browning Heavy Machinegun was deployed. This monster of a gun was usable without a bipod, but heavy and hard to aim without. With a 600 round per minute rate of fire from a direct feed belt, the Browning was one of the

In the overview of the chapter “Treatise on Nomadology-The War Machine” of the book “A Thousand Plateaus” the writer describes how the chess game has been used to represent the state whereas the nomad and smooth allowance relationship has been expounded using the “Go” player. The writer, Deleuze explains how chess and Go are different. According to the text, chess encodes and decodes the spaces within the game whereas Go is different from chess because it territorializes and deterritorializes the spaces. In other words, Deleuze is explaining how the war machine and state tools are way different in their purity. According to the writer, a state is not just a state that is governed by administration officers like chiefs, he views a state as a society that has arms of government at work or rather mechanisms. According to this chapter, “Treatise On Nomadology—The War Machine”, mechanisms are way beyond primitive structures such as the primordial, rhizomatic which are nomadic and arborescent and are majorly based on the organs of power (p. 357-358). This book review explains into details the chapter “Treatise On Nomadology—The War Machine” of the book “A Thousand Plateaus” on various aspects such as the war vs. the state, the war machine rules, how the war machine maintains nomad science and the methods utilized by the writers in

World war 2 was extremely horrific because the use of more extreme weapons were put into play which caused a lot more deaths than any other war. In the two wars other than world war two with the second and third most deaths the weapons used were very different than anything used in world war 2. In world war 2 the soldiers used rifles, shotguns, machine guns, tanks, self propelled artillery, self propelled guns/howitzers/mortars,

The United States used tanks very effectively throughout the war. “In 1943-4 the USA produced 47,000 tanks, almost all Shermans, while Germany produced 29,600 tanks and assault guns. Britain, in 1944, produced only 5000 tanks.”(Keegan 399). “Their rule was that five shermans were needed to knock out one German Panther.” By producing this many tanks they were able to send in loads of them into the battlefield and have the advantage over their enemies. This rule the army had was understandable, since the United States produced 47,000 tanks throughout the

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World War II is the name commonly given to the global conflict of 1939-1945. It is said to be the greatest and most destructive war in world history. The World War II military operations were conducted primarily in Europe but also in Asia, Africa, and the far islands of the Pacific as well. More than 17 million members of the armed forces perished during the conflict. It caused strain on the economic capabilities of the major nations and left many countries on the edge of collapse.